SOUNDplay
Sept 16th - Oct 16th, 2005
produced by
New Adventures in
Sound Art
Darren Copeland, Artistic Director.
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SOUNDplay Sept 16th - Oct 16th, 2005 produced by Darren Copeland, Artistic Director. |
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I looked at the earth from very close, in the humid darkness
of pebbles and twigs. A silent ray of light turned from a virgin sky as
I headed for the water. Sounds of war and hurricanes thundered across
the horizon. I walked on the wet strand for a while, paused and settled
for the night. Commissioned by New Adventures in Sound Art through a grant from the Media Arts Department of the Canada Council.
For the past few years, he has been involved in software design to facilitate the specification of control vectors for digital sound synthesis and processing. These activities have led to the creation of the program Cecilia which was awarded First Prize at the International competition for musical software in Bourges. Since 2000 he has developed a synchronised video projection system for three large screens and an image acquisition system with three digital cameras. This system is used for his productions and public performances. His new videomusic work for SoundPlay 2004 explores the new HDV video format.
In 1996 I recorded the cannon that is fired every day at noon from the Citadel in Halifax, Nova Scotia, all the pieces in Quieting are based on that recording or inspired by the shock of the shot. If you are hearing nothing, just wait.
This is a work that attempts to ‘speak’ for silence. Visitors/listeners to Prefix will confront a profound silence (or disquiet), where silence as a physical situation can be addressed and made palpable. A deafening silence, A silence that is existential and experiential, A silence occupying itself and yet opening itself up for an other. What might it mean to hear and experience the presence of an others silence? This work will transform the audio room at Prefix, into a space where silence can be perceived or imagined. A sound work than will shift subtly over time from pure narrative to small indistinct sounds and noise, and where the voice (the speaker) and muteness become a metaphor for arcane communication. Manipulated ambient recordings, prepared objects, live and pre-recorded voice will be captured and projected into the space, processed and filtered via a laptop. It is intended that the piece will be worked and re-worked in situ during the live performance/opening event and on other occasions during during the course of the exhibition. Richard Crow Born in 1961, Somerset, England, Crow's work as a visual artist spans solo and group installations and exhibitions, hybrid performance work, curatorial activity, and sound recordings with the group Diastolic Murmurs. Major projects include Grenzaänger at Artspace, Sydney;
The Noisiness of Bodies, at The Institution of Rot, London; Macro, at
During 1996 he was a Research Visitor at the Department of Drama at The University of Newcastle, Australia, and an International Artist in Residence at Artspace, Sydney. While in Australia, Crow performed Theurgy (Messe Basse) for the 100 Years of Cruelty Artaud Conference, and Auto-Manic (Self Portrait) at the Auto-Manic Conference, University of Newcastle. Crow has been the recipient of grants and awards from the London Arts Board, the Arts Council of England, and the London's Secret Spaces Fund. Opening of the Mouth is Crow's first collaboration with ELISION Ensemble. Silence How do we experience and understand silence? In what way can silence be investigated and expressed with sound? What does silence sound like and does it at all exist? The sound installation SILENCE is an investigation of silence in widely different contexts. The piece consists of three works each of a duration of six minutes. The soundworks are based on statements from interviews and edited into artistic and conceptual soundexpressions. Iben Bentzen - The Danish artist Iben Bentzen (1977) creates soundartistic expressions based on interviews. Her participation in various international exhibitions are marked by always critically discussing the very content of the exhibition theme. She is a candidate in art history and visual culture. She is currently working as art mediator at a museum, as moderator for the netgallery www.netfilmmakers.dk, as producer of independent tv www.tv-tv.dk and www.cps.1go.dk, and as member of the board of the soundartistic forum AUX. She is the co-curator and co-initiator of AGM. Iben is currently based in Copenhagen. Jacob Kirkegaard (1975) is a Danish sound artist currently based in Köln. He has participated in a great number of international festivals and exhibitions like Transmediale 2005, Venice Biennale 2005 and Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark, 2005. http://www.fonik.dk and http://secretsounds.dk Toke Tietze Mortensen (1979) is a composer and musician working with musique concrète on laptop and electroacoustic music. He is part of various "bands" eg. The Getto Blaster Ensemble and the artistcollective YOYO OYOY. Toke is currently based in Berlin. Emil Svendsen (1974) is a heavy metal musician and reviewer. He is a candidate in music science and visual culture. |
Sieves Quieting Speaker, stain, silence Silence   
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Jean
Piché is a composer and video artist from Montreal, where
he lives and teaches. His creative output over the past 20 years has explored
the more adventurous edges of high technologies applied to music and moving
images, including live electronics, fixed electronic media and performance.
He has received numerous international awards and his work has been shown
and heard in Europe, Asia and North America. After active collaborations
with world renowned video artists, he now directs and produces his own
video work, focusing on parallel compositional paradigms for abstracted
visuals and music, a new groundbreaking hybrid form which has been called
“videomusic”. His first opera « Yo Soy la Disentegracion »
was produced in 1997 by the Montreal company Chants Libres. He was program
officer at the Canada Council in the 80s and in 1990, produced the last
iteration of the New Music America Festival.
Christof
Migone is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. His work and
research delves into language, voice, bodies, psychopathology, performance,
video, intimacy, complicity, endurance. He co-edited the book and CD Writing
Aloud: The Sonics of Language (Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Press, 2001)
and his writings have been published in Aural Cultures, S:ON, Experimental
Sound & Radio, Musicworks, Radio Rethink, Semiotext(e), Angelaki,
etc. He obtained an MFA from NSCAD in 1996 and is currently a PhD (ABD)
candidate at the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School
of the Arts of New York University. He has released six solo audio cds
on various labels (Avatar, ND, Alien 8, Locust, Oral). He has curated
a number of events in the sound and radio arts: Touch that Dial (1990),
Radio Contortions (1991), Rappel (1994), Double Site (1998), stuttermouthface
(2002). He has performed at Beyond Music Sound Festival (Los Angeles),
kaaistudios (Brussels), Resonance FM (London), Nouvelles Scènes
(Dijon), On the Air (Innsbruck), Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), Experimental
Intermedia (NYC), Méduse (Québec), Victoriaville Festival,
and in Montreal at Radio Canada, Quinzaine de la Voix, Musiques Fragiles,
Galerie Oboro, Casa del Popolo, Théatre La Chapelle, etc. His installations
have been exhibited at the Banff Center, Rotterdam Film Festival, Gallery
101, Art Lab, eyelevelgallery, Forest City Gallery, Studio 5 Beekman.
He has collaborated with Lynda Gaudreau, Martin Tétreault, Tammy
Forsythe, Alexandre St-Onge, Michel F. Côté, Gregory Whitehead,
Set Fire To Flames, and Fly Pan Am. A monograph on his work, Christof
Migone - Sound Voice Perform, will be published in 2005. He currently
lives in Montréal and teaches at Concordia University.
Omniversum
Planetarium, a collaboration with Richard BARRETT, Paul OBERMAYER,
Mary OLIVER and Carl BEUKMAN, Den Haag, 1996; Fleischerei, in a 1950's
butcher's shop, including flooded cellar, Prenzlauerberg, Berlin, 1994;
and Black Iris-Nigredo, a series, at Cross Street, London, 1993.
